The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is about the year after the death of her husband. As she walks her way through this year of grieving, she occupies her mind with what she did the year before when her husband was still alive, thereby kind of putting off the actual grieving.

If you have siblings, you likely have their birthdays tattooed onto your brain. After all, in youth, the day on the calendar was circled and when that day came, the overall stock of toys in your household collection got a nice boost. It got me thinking about December 12ths past

The monsieur and I have left Paris. Actually we’ve been on the road since July 2014. If you’re wondering how your Paris Letters managed to arrive from me in Paris whilst I was on the road, here’s the secret: Magic. So off we went. The lovely Christophe took a page fr